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Startup Rips The Switch Out Of High Performance Networks

November 2, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …

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Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains

February 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. …

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Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World

November 19, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …

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VMware Embraces Nvidia GPUs, DPUs To Drive Enterprise AI

September 30, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …

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Staking The Claim For The Real DPU

August 17, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being at the opposite ends of the arc. …

Compute

Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips

March 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …

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Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three

February 10, 2020 Paul Teich 0

We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …

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Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs

October 31, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …

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Getting Smart About Software-Defined Networks

June 7, 2019 Sponsored Content from Mellanox 0

More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier. …

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AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers

November 27, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …

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